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snick_backupJourney Into Mystery featuring Sif - Vol. 1: Stronger Than Monsters, by K. Immonen and Schiti
This was very pretty. Very, very pretty. See here and here for a couple of pages early in the first issue (beware lots of blue monster robot blood), or this for a page of Sif being adorable with children.
Storywise, I was underwhelmed. I found an interview of Immonen talking about Sif finally coming into her own, apart from the guys. Aside from a one-shot in 2010, this seems to be the first time Sif has ever had her own title, however briefly (it's now been canceled after, I believe, the second volume). So I guess I should be more forgiving of the fact that the plot of this first volume is basically a "Sif Learns a Valuable Lesson," since she as a character apparently has never been given the space to learn much of anything until now.
Still. This is a Sif Learns a Valuable Lesson story. In fact, it's a story about how she wants to be a better warrior, takes steps to that end with the best of intentions, and is slapped down by the narrative for it. Her older brother Heimdall (now there's a detail I did not get from the movie!) being a major player in teaching her that lesson didn't sit well, either.
OTOH, as I said, the art is gorgeous. Sif is dressed, if not entirely sensibly, at least less like a pin-up girl than she could be, and her proportions are all physically plausible. She herself is as capable and unapologetic a warrior of Asgard as one could wish. And I very much appreciate that she is in no way a Thor adjunct here; he barely gets a mention and never appears. I will look up the next volume; I am still interested in seeing where Sif's quest might take her.
(In the department of Snick Is Still Finding Her Feet in the Marvelverse, apparently Asgard has been destroyed or made unlivable, because now its citizens live in Asgardia, an island floating in the sky above Broxton, Oklahoma. Yes.
Also, I gather this volume is a sort of rogues' gallery of critters from old issues of Thor, not that I recognized any of them. Otherwise, though, prior knowledge requirements are pretty low.)
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This was very pretty. Very, very pretty. See here and here for a couple of pages early in the first issue (beware lots of blue monster robot blood), or this for a page of Sif being adorable with children.
Storywise, I was underwhelmed. I found an interview of Immonen talking about Sif finally coming into her own, apart from the guys. Aside from a one-shot in 2010, this seems to be the first time Sif has ever had her own title, however briefly (it's now been canceled after, I believe, the second volume). So I guess I should be more forgiving of the fact that the plot of this first volume is basically a "Sif Learns a Valuable Lesson," since she as a character apparently has never been given the space to learn much of anything until now.
Still. This is a Sif Learns a Valuable Lesson story. In fact, it's a story about how she wants to be a better warrior, takes steps to that end with the best of intentions, and is slapped down by the narrative for it. Her older brother Heimdall (now there's a detail I did not get from the movie!) being a major player in teaching her that lesson didn't sit well, either.
OTOH, as I said, the art is gorgeous. Sif is dressed, if not entirely sensibly, at least less like a pin-up girl than she could be, and her proportions are all physically plausible. She herself is as capable and unapologetic a warrior of Asgard as one could wish. And I very much appreciate that she is in no way a Thor adjunct here; he barely gets a mention and never appears. I will look up the next volume; I am still interested in seeing where Sif's quest might take her.
(In the department of Snick Is Still Finding Her Feet in the Marvelverse, apparently Asgard has been destroyed or made unlivable, because now its citizens live in Asgardia, an island floating in the sky above Broxton, Oklahoma. Yes.
Also, I gather this volume is a sort of rogues' gallery of critters from old issues of Thor, not that I recognized any of them. Otherwise, though, prior knowledge requirements are pretty low.)
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